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From the Zócalo to the Alameda: Mexico City Highlights

Between the Zócalo and the Alameda Central lie the landmarks every visitor wants to see: the square where the country's heart beats, pedestrian Calle Madero, the Torre Latinoamericana, the Postal Palace and the Palace of Fine Arts. It's a flat, easy walk, lively at any hour, that ends under the trees of the city's oldest park.

  • 6 stops
  • 1.6 km
  • 1 h 30 min
  • Free
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White marble façade and dome of the Palace of Fine Arts

The route

Stop by stop

  1. 1 Zócalo (Plaza de la Constitución)The square named after a pedestal with no statue, and still Mexico's great living room.
  2. 2 Iturbide PalaceA baroque wedding present from whose balcony the first emperor of independent Mexico was acclaimed.
  3. 3 Torre LatinoamericanaThe 1956 skyscraper that floats on a lake and came through three major earthquakes unscathed.
  4. 4 Postal PalaceA post office that looks like a Venetian palace, with bronze staircases cast in Florence.
  5. 5 Palace of Fine Arts (Bellas Artes)Begun Art Nouveau, finished Art Deco, thirty years in the making: Mexico's great cultural stage.
  6. 6 Alameda Central and the Juárez HemicycleThe oldest public park in the Americas, with a past of bonfires and a white marble tribute to Juárez.

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What you’ll discover

From the Zócalo to the Alameda: Mexico City Highlights

The nation's square

The Zócalo, with its giant flag, has hosted celebrations, concerts and protests for centuries.

Engineering against earthquakes

The Torre Latinoamericana withstood the quakes of 1957, 1985 and 2017 on the soft bed of an old lake.

Porfirian splendour

Carrara marble, Florentine bronze and Tiffany glass: the palaces with which the capital set out to rival Paris.

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